Posted July 29, 2011: Oregonian - Lori Tobias (click here for pdf version)

The writing on the wall said it all: "The only flophouse with an ocean view and a waiting list." 

In the spring of 1979, Ed Cameron made it on that list – and not long after off -- and into a coveted room on the third floor with an I-can-see-for-miles-view of ocean and sky. 

"Being in the Gilmore Hotel, I realized this was a unique story and a unique culture," recalls Cameron, 80. "It was sort of like I had arrived home from having left San Francisco, and discovered a little San Francisco. At some point I began jotting notes ..."  [Read Entire Article]

Thirty-two years later, those notes have coalesced into "Gilmore by the Sea," a graphic novel with short stories based loosely on his experiences in the three-story hotel now known far and wide as the Sylvia Beach Hotel. 

Posted April 13, 2011: Oregon Coast Today
One Man’s Beach column – Matt Love
One Man's Beach | Oregon Coast Today

I first met Newport resident and man of letters Ed Cameron about a decade ago on one of my visits to the Nye Beach Writers’ Series events. I can’t remember the name of the poet who topped the billing that night, probably because he or she was predictably precious and thus easily forgettable. But I’ll never forget when Ed Cameron took his turn at the open mic that followed the main presentation.

Ed read a riveting and humorous short prose piece about two Cannery Row-type characters who lived in a Newport flophouse called the Gilmore Hotel during the hazy loose days of the 1970s. Apparently, each year, an election for the office of Mayor of Nye Beach was held in the Sandbar, an exquisitely gritty Nye Beach bar, and one time a dog received the most votes! Who said democracy doesn’t work?

Did I say something about the Oregon Coast being hazy and loose in the 1970s? I only wish I could have seen it for myself... [Read Entire Article - Click Here]